Speaker: Brandon Byars

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North America Head of Technology @thoughtworks

Brandon Byars is a passionate technologist, consultant, author, speaker, and open source maintainer. As Head of Technology for Thoughtworks North America, Brandon is part of the group that puts together the Thoughtworks Technology Radar, a biannual, opinionated perspective on technology trends. As a consultant, he has helped lead digital transformation agendas across a range of industries, with a  focus on those technical enabling blocks and integration strategies that help promote autonomy and agility at scale. He is the creator of mountebank, a widely used service virtualization tool, and wrote a related book on testing microservices.

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Session

API Evolution Without Versioning

Versioning is usually the first–and too often, the only–technique architects reach for when imagining a breaking change to an API’s interface. Based on my experience managing the evolution of a public API, I’ve recently cataloged several alternative techniques and their tradeoffs.

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Date

Tuesday Oct 25 / 10:35AM PDT ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

Topics

Application Programming Interface Modern APIs Open Source Patterns of Evolution Versioning DevOps Architecture

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Session

[Panel] Who Cares About Your API?

Who cares about your API? 

Everyone.

DevOps has shown us that when developers care about operations, they write better software. 

What other viewpoints should developers consider when they're building software?

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Date

Tuesday Oct 25 / 02:55PM PDT ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

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